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In this episode, we explore the simple idea that the usefulness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in agriculture depends less on the technology itself, and more on whether people trust its outputs.  Across agriculture, use of AI continues to build, with tools for analysing weather, soils, crops, and markets becoming available, all of which supports faster and more informed decisions. Global conversations, including those at the recent AI4Agri 2026 event,… Read more »Trust enables AI to work

Have you ever taken an AI-generated answer at face value, only to later question whether it was actually right? In this episode, we build on something we mentioned in a recent ‘Using AI in extension’ workshop about why tools like ChatGPT and Copilot can sound convincing even when they’re wrong, and what that means for us as enablers of change. In that online workshop, many participants shared how quickly… Read more »Why AI often gets it wrong

Have you ever started a project and wished you could tap into the whole world’s research in seconds? Understandably this is something that has come up for us regularly, as we draft out our Enablers of change episodes. We thought it’d be good to talk through what AI we use and how we use it to highlight relevant research and speed up our production process. In this episode, we’ll… Read more »Tapping into research with Consensus

In this episode, we’re exploring large language models (LLMs) as a tool that can help improve our writing process as enablers of change. LLMs, specifically those designed to generate creative “sparks,” can be a game-changer for us, making our science communication more engaging and effective. Just so we all know what we’re talking about, let’s do a quick overview of Artificial intelligence or AI. This is the broad field… Read more »Sparking creativity: Using LLMs in extension

Are you wondering whether artificial intelligence (AI), like ChatGPT, is going to steal our jobs? The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence is certainly going to affect most aspects of our work and home lives, so in this short episode we’re going to explore this further.  The fear of AI taking our jobs is understandable. Artificial intelligence can perform tasks that previously required a great deal of human effort. However,… Read more »Is AI going to steal our jobs?

In this episode, we’re diving into how ChatGPT can help us as enablers of change to boost both our productivity and the impact of our work. AI tools like ChatGPT are increasingly accessible, and when used well, they can help us work smarter, not harder, allowing us to focus more on the people and the issues that matter most in our field. We’ve talked about ChatGPT in earlier episodes… Read more »Boosting productivity and impact with ChatGPT

Hi there, fellow enablers of change! In an earlier episode we discussed how enablers of change might use ChatGPT. In this episode, we’re going deeper, and we’re sharing our top seven suggestions for making better use of it to improve our efficiency and impact. We’ll dive into some effective tips on how to use prompts with ChatGPT, and discuss how it can be a valuable asset in our agricultural extension… Read more »Seven suggestions for making better use of ChatGPT

Have you heard about ChatGPT… the state-of-the-art conversational artificial intelligence (AI) system that can generate human-like text based on a given prompt? In this episode we’re going to explore what it is and how we might use it as enablers of change. ChatGPT stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer and is an AI-powered language model developed by OpenAI. It is a conversational AI system that uses deep-learning algorithms to… Read more »How enablers of change might use ChatGPT